SWITOP - System Performance Monitor

📊 Monitor your Mac's performance with detailed insights into CPU, GPU, memory, and power metrics. Built with Swift, optimized for Apple Silicon.

SWITOP is a powerful command-line interface (CLI) application designed to provide real-time system performance monitoring for Apple Silicon Macs. It offers detailed insights into CPU, GPU, memory usage, and power consumption metrics.

Features

• CPU Monitoring

  • E-Core and P-Core usage percentages and frequencies
  • Real-time performance metrics for both efficiency and performance cores

• GPU Monitoring

  • GPU usage percentage and frequency
  • Real-time GPU performance metrics

• Memory Statistics

  • Physical memory usage
  • Swap memory utilization
  • Detailed memory breakdown

• Power Consumption Metrics

  • CPU power usage in watts
  • GPU power consumption
  • ANE (Apple Neural Engine) power usage
  • Combined power consumption

Requirements

• macOS running on Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
• Root/Administrator privileges (for accessing system metrics)
• Xcode 14.0+ (for building from source)

Installation

Building from Source

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/switop.git
cd switop

2. Build the project:

swift build -c release

3. The binary will be available in .build/release/switop

Usage

Simply run the application from the terminal:

sudo ./switop

Note: Root privileges are required to access system performance metrics.

Interface

The application displays:

• System information including CPU model and core configuration
• Real-time CPU metrics for both E-cores and P-cores
• GPU usage and frequency
• Memory usage statistics
• Detailed power consumption metrics

Use Ctrl+C to exit the application.

Technical Details

SWITOP utilizes various system APIs and commands:

• powermetrics for CPU and GPU metrics
• vm_stat for memory statistics
• sysctl for system information
• System profiler for GPU information

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please file an issue on the GitHub repository.

Others

I did this pure out of boredom... Was inspired of "asitop" and wanted to recreate it using Swift. Yes, thats it... 🤷🏻‍♂️

If anything breaks in your machine, aint my fault :)